It’s not like the first movie was a great masterwork or anything. Even so, it was fairly amusing (and now hopelessly dated) as an example of fantasy fulfillment for geeks everywhere, but that’s about it. It’s also noteworthy because it was Anthony Edwards’ first starring role (and he had hair back then) and because James Cromwell played Louis Skolnick’s father, with John Goodman playing the football coach.

The question produced by this remake, though, would be: What are the differences between the nerds of 2006 and the nerds of 1984, when the original movie was made?

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Maybe there were still burning questions left unanswered by Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise or the TV movies Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992) and Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994).

As someone quipped on another blog which I wish I could remember and hence credit, “nerd is the new black.” There’s some special (maybe tonight) on E! about the rise of the geeks, or something along those lines. As Huey Lewis so famously put it, it is once again hip to be square.